The conica, the first espresso coffee maker project by architect Aldo Rossi, was born from a play of simple geometric shapes that form a mini table architecture, with a concise and elegant style. A timeless icon, the conica has a stainless steel body and a copper bottom: a refined object, with essential geometric lines that give life to a functional tool with which to prepare and serve coffee.
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“Il conico” is the architecturally derived kettle created by Aldo Rossi: made of 18/10 stainless steel, it is the transformation of his geometric designs into a kitchen object, which soon became a design icon.
Electric version of the famous kettle with the bird, it represents for Alessi the meeting point between great design and large-scale production methods, a meeting obstinately sought by Michael Graves, applying his personal visual code that blends influences from Art Deco to Pop Art up to the language of cartoons.
The 9091 kettle has a melodic brass whistle with a new shape, made up of two small pipes in which choristers are inserted which reproduce the notes E and B. Richard Sapper created it inspired by a childhood memory, the poetic sound of the sirens of the boats on the Rhine river: because the melody that accompanies the release of the steam must be pleasant, not anxiety-provoking like the typical whistle of kettles. The 9091 kettle is a multi-sensorial object, which will not interrupt a pleasant pause with a whistle, but with an enveloping melody.
The soft lines of this juicer, made almost entirely of stainless steel, clearly reveal Stefano Giovannoni’s search for a sort of new classicism, of harmony, for the domestic landscape of this century.